Bread and pastry board.



No. 830,764. PATENTED SEPT. 11, 1906. F. v. BRAYMER. BREAD AND PASTRYBOARD.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 11, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FORREST VICTOR BRAYMER, OF BLOOMING VALLEY, PENNSYLVANIA.

BREAD AND PASTRY BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 11, 1906.

Application filed December 11, 1905. Serial No. 291,315.

To aZZ "whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FORREST VICTOR BRAY- MER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Blooming Valley, in the county of Crawford and Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBread and Pastry Boards, of which the following is a specification. Theobject of my invention is to provide an improved bread and pastry boardembodying sanitary and economical features and preferably constructed ofone piece of sheet metal of a predetermined thickness and ornamentationand with preferably integral stiffened supporting edges, one of which isre-turned upon itself to form a receptacle for particles of flour and.dough and also for a rolling-pin.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and alsoto acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means foreffecting the result reference is to be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view ofmy improved bread and pastry board. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectionalview thereof. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view. Figs. 4, 5, and 6illustrate slightly-modified forms of the edges of the board.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

My improved bread and pastry board 1 is preferably constructed of oneintegral piece of sheet metal, usually tin-plate. This may be made ofblack plate and tinned or dipped or may be plated with any metal or bemade of tin-plate and retinned or replated with other metal orotherwise, according to taste. The quality of the board, or preferablythe cost of the same, is manifestly to be regulated by the coating andworkmanship or ornamentation, and the weight and strength may beregulated by the grade of sheet metal.

As illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the edges 2 of the board maybefolded on all four sides in two or more laps, preferably of aboutonehalf an inch, the said laps being pressed together to make a closejoint to prevent the accumulation of dirt and to make adesirable andsufficiently stiff edge. As shown in the said figures, the stiffened andstrengthened edges 2 are formed by re-turning the metal upon itself onceto form a main double portion and then redoubling the smaller edgeportion inwardly, as shown in cross-sectional views, and the edges arepreferably so pressed together that the second re-turned portion(designated 2 will fit within a slight depression 2' Instead of theedges 2 being folded, as before described, they may be trimmed with apressed or cast border-piece and the corners may be rounded and finishedwith a pressed or cast piece, if desired. As shown in Fig. 4, the edge 3of the board 1 is not integral therewith, but is a piece distincttherefrom and is of substantially U shape with inwardly-turned edgesembracing the edges of the board proper, or, as shown in Fig. 5, oneedge of the main body 1 of the board may be re-turned upon itself, asshown at 4, and interlocked with one member of the sub stantiallyU-shape-pressed edge 3. Again, if desired, the board proper, 1.", may beprovided with a cast edge 3 which embraces the same and is preferablysecured thereon by solder or the like, (indicated at 5.) One end 6 ofthe board is re-turned upon itself to describe a substantial semicircle,and this tends to stiffen the board and serves at the same time as areceptacle for particles of flour or dough and also for a rolling-pin.The other end of the board is provided with an eyelet or loop 7 or thelike by which the board may be hung up in some convenient place when notin use. If desired, the infinitesimal spaces between the lapped portionsof the corners and edges that are closely pressed together may be filledwith cement or solder, or a combination of the two, so as to leave nospace for the accumulation of dirt and grease, thereby making the boardeasy to be cleaned.

From the foregoing description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, it will be seen that I have provided a bread and pastry boardwhich may be cheaply made out of a piece of sheet metal and which in itsintegral formation will be sufficiently stiff to stand the treatment towhich it will be subjected in use and which will be absolutely clean andsanitary as to produce no cracks or crevices for the accumulation ofdirt and grease.

It is manifest that the board may be made of various sizes and designs.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is Theherein-described article of manufacture consisting of a bread and pastryboard composed of a single layer of sheet metal the side andbothendedges ofwhich arefolded and smooth, whereby the board may be readilyre-turned upon themselves respectively and kept clean. 10 closelypressed together to stiffen the board In testimony whereof I aflix mysignature and producing a suitable supporting edge, A in presence of twowitnesses.

one end of the board being curled in substan- FORREST VICTOR BRAYMER.[L. s] tially semicircular form for the purpose speci- Witnesses: fied,and both faces of the sin le layer of F. E. BRIGGS,

metal forming the body of the oard being CAROLINE DRAKE.

